skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a good look. But to precise, user had already second-highest score long prior to period of posting AI work. In that case AI answers did not affect ranking.
Right now the ultra wealthy in Sweden are pouring that money back into their local economy. But that won't last. Eventually it will get passed down and children will not feel obligated to do the same thing. This is why they should keep the corporate rate high and bring back the wealth and inheritance tax.
> Ive tried making this exact product using all of these services, including using github repo koi is based on.

Could you share the repo?
There are some ARM SBCs with e.g. 32GB RAM and an NPU for under $300, such as the Orange Pi 5 Plus, but I'm guessing refurbished Apple Silicon hardware is the best answer for the price.
https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
Interesting thought, I am one for AI maximalism.

I believe the creatives that hone their craft will find the most benefit from using AI as a tool.
Some achievement are very clearly extrapolation. Galois field theory, general relativity, Greens theorem, to name a few I’m familiar with. These are the leaps of extrapolation that change the world - but the human mind has capabilities LLM simple can’t - agency, facilities at speculative simulation of approximations (dreaming and imagination), random recall memory, among others. These aren’t woowoo magic human ideas they’re measurable and identifiable capabilities that by construction LLMs can’t have - even if they can approximate it in a compelling way. That doesn’t mean we can’t build something with these and other intelligence capabilities AI of today lack or that they aren’t profoundly useful. But they literally can’t do anything but “walk” their vector space - and nothing but their vector space.
Even if the TIOBE index were a meaningful indicator, Fortran being in a tie with Delphi Pascal for tenth place shouldn't really be a cause for celebration for its few remaining enthusiasts.
Wow, hundreds of milliseconds is a lot worse than I'd expect. I'm not shocked that it's slower than something like plain `rdtsc` (single digit nanoseconds?) but that excuses maybe microseconds of overhead -- not milliseconds and certainly not hundreds of milliseconds.
The Tiny C compiler deserves to be mentioned.
I always laugh when governments express surprise when companies exploit loopholes in the law. Here we have an amoral entity whose only purpose and incentive is to find ways to make money, and you're surprised that they hire a bunch of staff to figure out all the loopholes and how to make money against the spirit of the law but while sticking exactly to the letter of the law?

You weren't "duped." You wrote a law without red-teaming it thinking like a corporation.
Some of these might be less interesting to a boy at that age, but here are the books/authors I loved around 9 (lots of talking animals, magic, and adventure/detective plots):

Garth Nix
Sharon Creech
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Jane Yolan
David Clement-Davies
E. L. Konigsburg
Louis Sachar
Avi
Brian Jacques
Louise Erdich
Edward Bloor
Susan Fletcher
"Reader Beware, You Choose the Scare" Goosebumps (like Choose Your Own Adventure but more modern at the time).

I grew into the kind of avid reader that still reads 50+ books a year. My Mom didn't try to control what I read, even if it was complete junk.

I also adored fact books like the coffee tables you mentioned. I remember having a pulpy "100,000 weird facts" book, both covers torn off because it was used so much. This was before Wikipedia.
They definitely do that with water. It's called "pumped storage" and there are megawatt-scale installations all over the world.
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I think the real problem is that in the US health insurance is tied to employment.
Yep, but no way to replace the voice activated assistant. Hotword activation requires system permissions.

And if you want to do things like allow the assistant to see what's inside other apps, again not possible without system permissions.
> now that all of our basic needs are taken care of by automation

An AI being able to consistently outperform us in recalling the syntax for switch statements, is a world away from "all of our basic needs being taken care of by automation". The former is going to take a few more weeks/months, while the latter is going to take a few more decades/centuries.

In the interim, there will be some winners, and many losers from this innovation. Wealth will concentrate significantly towards the winners, while the losers will be out of work with a valueless skillset, and their basic needs going unmet. While this may be true for most high-skill professions in the coming decades, there's a unique irony for programmers - who will be the losers, having invented and then fueled the engine of their own demise on behalf of the winners.

It's not necessarily a value-judgement based comment. It's just noting the irony, and highlighting that it's a specific genre of irony that economists absolutely salivate over.
You’re posting on a site where many people think that for-profit employment will be replaced with UBI in the sense of a stipend which will free most people up to pursue their dreams and desires.[1] So 200+ years of for-profit employment and wealth extraction which created a very impressive wealth disparity until One Weird/Genius Policy proposal by Andre Yang/Musk will usher in the post-scarcity era.

[1] As opposed to something that will keep you alive but perhaps not give you any means of expressing or pursuing your interests. If UBI even becomes a thing.
What about quantum compilers and quantum embedding of classical data; what are the algorithmic advantages listed at Quantum Algorithm Zoo for $5m? Qubit operations are described as rotations on a bloch sphere; the unit circle with a complex coordinate z to make a sphere, but are also representable as matrix (tensor) transformations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39637175

Compiler optimization improvements are also incentivized by costed opcodes in e.g. smart contracts.
Not sure about that. I would read for fun instead of reading the assigned reading. The teacher would get mad. I'd continue to ignore them and continue reading my book.

So you can't just blame the teacher. If the books give you something essential, you'll turn to them to escape a harsh reality.
> heavily leverage Flash, Shockwave, Java Applets, Image Maps, etc.

For navigation. Full Flash/Shockwave/Java sites for the content were very rare. The text itself was still text in the HTML. It might not have been perfect but at least you had something for the screen reader to read. Modern sites are just blank pages of nothing.
depending on what, exactly "bash commands don't work" <https://github.com/Megapixel99/nodejs-k8s/blob/master/functi...> is talking about, but a thing that bites A LOT of folks when dealing with command: [] (and its args:[] friend) is that they are exec style, not "sh -c" style as one might experience with a Dockerfile RUN command. I think Dockerfile's RUN [""] syntax is also exec style, but I don't use it much because it's horrifically verbose

As a concrete example, command: ["bash -c uptime"] will not work because there is no such command '/usr/bin/bash -c uptime' and the actual form is command: ["bash", "-c", "uptime"]

Related, it often bites people that exec does no shell interpolation, neither resolving variables nor redirection, so command: ["doit", ">/dev/null"] will not shake out, nor will command: ["echo", "$HOSTNAME"] (although there is a nuance to that since kubernetes itself will actually resolve any env:[] references in a (regrettably horrible) syntax of command: ["echo", "$(USERNAME)"], env: [{name: USERNAME, value: megapixel99}]

All in all, congratulations on your Show HN!
It’s smoke and mirrors.

They’re promising literally everything under the EW sun, which is easy to do when you’re not under contract to prove it or deliver anything.
Looks like a great resource, bookmarked to read. This reminds me (and perhaps looks like a bigger better more modern version) of another online book I’ve seen that maybe first introduced me to the idea that serious data analysis can be done using the command line: “Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line”, mostly just covering cat, find, grep, wc, cut, sort, and uniq.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ad_Hoc_Data_Analysis_From_The_...
A company called Energy Vault[0] is (was?) working on this. I think it is relatively capital intensive compared to what the company in the article is doing. Of course storing underground requires particular geology.

I also remember reading about a system that moved dirt/rock up a mountain on a train. Can’t find a link, but that also seems capital intensive and requires different geology.

There is also pumped hydro storage that works via gravity. That’s been around a while. My dad worked as an engineer on one in the 80s [1].

[0] https://www.energyvault.com/
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms_Pumped_Storage_Plant
Why Do Grapes Spark in the Microwave? (2019)
What? Just because you don’t have work doesn’t mean you lose access to the public services.

But in all seriousness - the way I see it is that it’s a race to reaching post-scarcity utopia before we reach unemployment dystopia.
I don't read OP article as "keep all your worth in cash".

Asset allocation is of course extremely important, but the main point made in the article is not having debt
I'd say this is about correct... my new Toyota came with 3 months of free satelite radio, and it was at about 2 months casual usage that I decided "I'm going to actually sign up" [after having enough time to explore multiple channels].

Had it only been "1 month free" I would not have explored enough to sign up.
Yes. Hence the past tense. There are more reasons why they fell so badly behind, from bureaucracy to eye wateringly decrepit, overengineered, and legacy ridden training code, to slow and hard to debug AI infra, to deliberate forking and siloing of critical projects, etc. Let’s just say Google is now very far from where it was a decade ago. I’m mildly surprised they released anything competitive at all. I’m not surprised that they failed to beat OpenAI (and therefore ironically Microsoft - how do you like them turntables?)
My approach. IMO, people are better estimating monthly costs than hourly costs. Hence, set a monthly cost and divide it to 160 (hours per month with 5 days 8 hours and 4 weeks). You can add 30% or higher for any risks.
> It will not emit warnings saying it did that.

You're right. I was sure I read that it would announce when it does a copy over a sink but now I look for it I can't find it!

> The static analysis is not very transparent.

There is '--expandArc' which shows the compile time transformations performed but that's a bit more in depth.
First crewed Starliner flight to International Space Station launches tonight
I hate that developers are inventing their own "patterns" to look cool, they keep overengineering even the product doesn't have the PMF yet and you can't say that is stupid because you have to be professional.
I'd be interested to see actual data on that. For example, a Canadian study done after a year of legalization found that more youths tried marijuana, but that they were trying it later than average and the overall usage of cannabis among youth remained the same. Interestingly, there was also an increase to the perception of harm from using cannabis among the youth surveyed.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.09.003
High pressure time offers that are only known after signing up kind of stink too.

I've never used Uber in my life but I'll be traveling internationally next month for the first time so I figured it wouldn't hurt to install Uber now to get a feel for what the UI is like.

As soon as I signed up Uber was like, hey we'll give you 50% off your 4th ride if you complete 3 rides within 14 days. I won't even be traveling by the time the offer runs out. All this does is make me feel like I made a mistake for signing up too early without knowing anything was going to happen.
There's also information that technically works but is horrendously insecure that is highly upvoted on SO. There's usually people in the comments noting how insecure it is, but I wish there was some moderator action that could cause for an answer to be marked as insecure, as I'm sure there are people who have copied the unsafe solutions without looking at the comments.

There are also answers that "work" and aren't insecure but will near certainly cause other issues.

I'm sure some people upvote because they had the same question, tried the solution, and it seemingly worked (even if it's not secure, performant, etc.), so they upvote. But you'd think they'd at least check the comments and see what people are saying before trying (let alone upvoting) a solution.
And just in case it's not clear: I'm saying Groq can be used for arbitrary AI inference workloads, and we aim to be the fastest for all of them. We're not tuned to any specific model.
Smart cars aren't that impressive mileage-wise. A regular Smart car gets ~40mpg Smart Fourtwo's get about 36mpg. A Kia Niro Hybrid gets >50mpg. A CR-V hybrid gets ~40mpg. Both while being much more car than any Smart car.

You'd think with the massive size compromises you'd get a lot better mileage tradeoff. Maybe they'll release a hybrid version and get some real impressive mileage.
>Because for a majority of people, they get no benefit from persistent visual placement of content, or visual differentiation of documents

You say that, but I don't think it's true. (I think you even argue against it later in the comment but I'm not sure??)
I just list all of the plants sold at any of the stores I currently integrate with. I use a scientific taxonomic name database to make sure that the binomial names (genus, species) are legit and not miss-spelled and all of my liastings are anchored to that. I match products to binomial names through a process thats that uses a really complex regex, plus some manual labeling. Experimenting with using more ML here.

Price/availability data is updated on a nightly basis. Probably want to increase that frequency, though no one has complained about stale data yet, so not high priority.

Getting some affiliate relationships set up right now! Already have two added in the past week.

That extra / is mysterious... I will dive into that after work.
Also average houses from that time period were tiny, with about ~1000 sq ft of livable space. That people were expected to raise families in. My apartment (which is just for me and my cat) is bigger than that!

https://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes...
This is why I think people loved the concept of the "desktop" in Windows. Those that filled it with icons, in their own rows, columns, grids, corners, full of games, applications, documents. To me it is one of Windows's biggest successes. And yet some dismiss it as unecessary and even remove the feature altogether. I think it should be embraced even more, make the messy desktop a first class citizen for people to organize their thoughts, with ways to interact with it without having to minimize all windows. Windows 10's menu did this in a neat-enough way with its customizable menu, what happened to that?
Isn't it obvious? If you can't do arithmetic without a calculator, it makes it hard to do algebraic manipulation. (Un)luckly a calculator that could do that arrived in my lap just in time. Then you get to calculus, and it was the same story. I eked by with a lot of furious typing, but the mental workload of that made it untenable towards the end and I wasn't really gaining much anyway because of that. It would have been far better if I'd just hadn't been allowed to use a calculator from the start.

It didn't affect my ability to reason and prove things, just as long those things don't strongly require the knowledge and skills I should have gotten from the calculator shaped gap in my education. I lack a lot of the background knowledge and/or familiarity and comfort with many skills that I should have.
Exactly. Another good model for certain kinds of product is to allow unlimited use of a limited dataset.
I didn't like Affinity or Inkscape when I tried them (I even bought Affinity on a sale in order to try it, so I own it). Affinity also had issues importing my CS6 Illustrator files, IIRC, and since I have hundreds of those for various board game designs of mine that I still go back to and rework when I have a new idea for them, the fact that it couldn't play nice with them made it pretty much a nonstarter.

It's been a while since I've used Inkscape, but I remember it feeling clunky and buggy for me, and I had difficulty getting into the workflow.

I'm sure I could probably force myself to get used to, and probably enjoy alternatives, but the more I invest in these proprietary alternatives, the harder it will be to shift anything back to Illustrator if I need to, especially since I don't think any of them bother to output to a CS6 friendly file format anymore, so I can shift to them, but I can't easily shift out of them.

And at this point Illustrator CS6 is just dead simple for me, I don't have to think about where anything is, I know exactly what I need to do for like 98% of what I want to do on it, and most of it is muscle memory, I can whip up some cards in a few hours while watching TV shows in the background.

It's going to take something significant (like it no longer working) to motivate me enough to upgrade. I know I'm playing with fire a bit, since these files are getting more and more out of date, and may not import nicely into even the subscription Adobe Illustrator at some point, but I already have too much other shit I have to learn all the time for my day job, I don't have much left outside of that (maybe eventually I will. I am starting to learn Logic Pro and Ableton Live for making music finally, and for the longest time I only used FLStudio).

That's a cool graphic though. I'll download it for future reference. Also it'll be easier for me to convert for other Adobe products, like I mostly use Paint.NET instead of Photoshop nowadays, for example. Illustrator is the main one I feel I have to stick with. Also Flash, since it doesn't exist in any newer ones (I used to make Flash games, so if I want to open those FLA files again, I need it).
Making light 'feel' a magnetic field like an electron would
>I don't see why we should put ourselves in a position where we need that kind of trust. Another way to put it is, why burden the government with an unsustainable uncompetitive market? For what?

I'm not sure I follow this exactly, isn't regulation supposed to aid in preventing an `unsustainable uncompetitive market` ?

The market has shown over and over that left to it's own devices, things will not balance out.
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FWIW, I've read up on LINQ and it strikes me as having exactly the same issues as any ORM generally does: you lose on the expressiveness needed to get most optimal querying capabilities for the tool in use (eg. Postgres specifics or SQLite specifics or...).

This is not to say that one should use string concatenation to construct queries, but that you want smart tools that do just enough. I.e. I like Storm expression language or sqlalchemy-core to express SQL as Python, but getting into deeper ORM level stuff generally harms what you can achieve once you need more complex stuff.
A company recently denied us a trial extension, even though they could tell we barely got to use their software by the time they got around to granting us trial licenses after a series of sales pitch meetings. We ended up signing with their competitor, who was patient and gave us a few free credits instead that we could work thru on our own pace.

Both companies knew that we had been paying a different 3rd company quadruple
either of their rates, so I was baffled that the first company would basically write us off so quickly when we were openly motivated to switch.
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I'd like to call out one of my favorite pieces of software from the past 10 years: VisiData [1] has completely changed the way I do ad-hoc data processing, and is now my go-to for pretty much all use cases that I previously used spreadsheets for, and about half of those I previously used local DB instances for.

It's a TUI application, not strictly CLI, but scriptable, and I figure anyone building pipelines using tools like jq, q, awk, grep, etc. to process tabular data will find it extremely useful.

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[1]: https://visidata.org
You "guess"?

For someone who thinks the rest of us are so ignorant on this...

Gaza's (only) Airport, which had its radar station and control tower bombed in 2001, and its runways cut up by IDF bulldozers in 2002.

Gaza's port has been intermittently blockaded by the Israeli Navy since 2005, and permanently since 2007.

> Exit and entry into Gaza by sea or air is prohibited. There are only three crossings in and out of Gaza, two of them controlled by Israel and one by Egypt. Israel heavily regulates Palestinians' movement through Erez, with applications considered only for a small number of laborers (less than 5% of the number considered in 2000) and for limited medical and humanitarian reasons.[6] Israel's military cooperation with Egypt and its control of the population registry (through which it controls who can obtain the necessary travel documents) gives it influence over movement through Rafah.

Certainly sounds like "access to the rest of the world" is being prohibited.
I think humans will move much higher in the development model, devs are going to become essentially Product managers for their projects.
AI can't plan well, but if you just give it a simple request it will do it, however it won't plan an entire app for you, at least not very well.
I've witnessed something similar, seeing someone quit a hard drug habit but still being stuck on nicotine for a few years before finally quitting. However, I don't think this says much about the inherent addictiveness of nicotine vs hard drugs, because it seems like the motivation to quit the hard drugs would be much higher. They're far more destructive in the short term, both to health and relationships.
Imagine if someone spent this much money on solving real problems ordinary people face, like the housing crisis.
Gasoline demand growth to slow this year on EV growth in China, US